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URTAIN FIXTURE. i No. 375,585.. y Patented Dec. 27, 1887.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

' UNITED, STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

RORER'Il P. TRIMBLE, OF OREGON, MISSOURI.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.` 375,585, dated December 27, 1887.

Application iled October 15, 1887. Serial No. 252,497. (No model.)

I of Oregon, in the county of Holt and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curtain-Shade Fixtures, ofwhich the following is a specification. v

My invention is in the nature of an improvement upon the curtain-shade and lambrequin Viixture for which Letters Patent No. 368,740

were granted me August 23, 1887; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the castings designed With reference to the cheaper production of the fixture, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the windowshade iixture applied to the window. Fig. 2 is a side View of the bracket and lambrequin support. Fig. 3isahorizontal section through line a: av of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 represents detail perspective views of the bracket and lambrequin hook.

1n the drawings, R R represent two metal brackets, one of which,.R, has the open notch a', and the other the hole a to hold the journals of the curtain-shade rollers, as usual. These brackets have upon the rear sides undercut recesses r, of dovetail shape, to receive a correspondingly-shaped horizontal slat, B, which extends entirely across the window and connects both brackets. Said brackets may be slid on the slat at will to suit any size window, and after being slid to the place where wanted they are secured to the slat by means of a small screw, b, extending through a hole in the bracketinto the slat. The upper rear portion, p, of each bracket is made hook-shaped, and isformed with a downwardly-projecting lug or piu, P, cast with the metal of the bracket and adapted to pass through the eye of a screw-eye, which is screwed into the window-frame, and by which the brackets are supported. There may be two or more of these screw-eyes in the window-frame, arranged one above the other, into which the brackets may be hung to vary the height of the shade-roller. Into the upper ones the brackets may beinserted when the window is closed at thetop, and when the Window is open at the top for ventilation the brackets may be transferred to the lower ones, to prevent the shade and cur-- tain from being blown about by the wind. That part of the bracket between the bearings for the roller-journal andthe portion of the bracket that goes against the window-frame is made thin, and is cast with an opening or hole, h, through the same, and the vertical edges e e of this opening set off from the plane of the top and bottom edges and are made beveled to form a dovetail passage in vertical direction on one side of the brackets, as seen in Fig. 3. The object of this is twofold, first, to give vpassage to the plain shank of the lambrequin-hook D, so as to hold the latter in place, and, secondly, to make these undercut edges so that they will not only hold the shank but will permit the bracket to be cast in a single piece without coring or subsequent cutting or'iiling. By making these beveled vertical walls of this opening to set oft from the plane of the top and bottom edge of the hole it will be seen that this shape will permit a perfect parting of the sand in the mold, so as to cast the brackets in the simplest way, which reduces the cost of the brackets to a trifling sum.

The brackets may be used separately from the lambrequin-hook.

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim as new is 1. The curtain-roller bracket herein described, having an opening through the saine with its vertical edges beveled or undercut and offset from the plane or" the other edges, in combination with a lambrequin-hook having its shank adapted to be secured in these undercut edges, substantially as. and for the purpose described.

2. The curtain-roller bracket formed in one piece, with the undercut recess r to receive the Slat, a hooked portion, p, with downwardly-projecting pin P, an opening, h, with undercut and offsetting vertical edges and a bearing for the roller, in combination with the lambrequin-hook D, substantially as and for the purpose described.

ROBERT P. TRIMBLE.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH Firrs, JAS. A. KEEvEs. 

